Finding the roots and early branches of the tree of life
Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 16:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A study published in PLoS Computational Biology maps the development of life-sustaining chemistry to the history of early life. Researchers Rogier Braakman and Eric Smith of the Santa Fe Institute traced the six methods of carbon fixation seen in modern life back to a single ancestral form.